RSS Feeds are broken in sNews, fix it with this hack

Matt

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:58:01 +0000

Sven, not breaking words is fairly easy, but if you're not stripping tags, you'll need to incorporate an awareness of HTML tags within the text.

Did you have a look at this one;
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php#92063

SvenPhilippe

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:54:20 +0000

Yeah! It works almost fine but there's an issue:
Cutting the text works but if it's in a link there's no more link at all.

I tried to fix by cutting the text without words breaking but as you know PHP is not my cup of tea (anyway I don't care, I only drink alcohol, even for breakfast) so I didn't get any results using this:

[code] //substring without words breaking

$str = "aa bb ccc ddd ee fff gg hhh iii";

echo substr(($str=wordwrap($str,$,'$$')),0,strpos($str,'$$'));
?>[/code]

That nice piece of code was found there: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php

Matt

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:54:08 +0000

Shouldn't be too hard Sven, we'd just need to extract the break title from the text if it exists. Use this bit for the first part. (not tested, but should work)

[code]if ($rss_item == "rss-articles") {
if (preg_match("/\[break title=\"(.*)\"\]/i",$r['text'],$matches)) {
$readmore = $matches[1];
} else {
$readmore = l('read_more');
}
$jump = '
'.$readmore.'';
}[/code]

SvenPhilippe

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:59:21 +0000

Oh! Thinking...
I don't know if you have your feed published in other sites but there might be a strong SEO improvement:
The idea is to replaced in the feed break the read more text anchor created by the one from "An easy mod to create custom break titles for your sNews articles".
What do you think of it?

SvenPhilippe

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 08:41:41 +0000

Splendid! Bravo! Thanks a lot Matt.

Matt

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:36:02 +0000

Sven,

Inside the function rss_contents, find the following and add the bits I've added ([b]bolded[/b]);
[code][b]if ($rss_item == "rss-articles") {
$jump = '
read more';
}[/b]
$item =
'
<![CDATA['.strip(htmlspecialchars_decode($title,ENT_QUOTES)).']]>

'.strip($text).[b]$jump.[/b]'
]]>

'.$date.'
'.$link.'
'.$link.'
';
echo $item;[/code]

That should add a "read more" link to rss-articles RSS feeds.

SvenPhilippe

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:30:30 +0000

Sure.
I'll be waiting.

Matt

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:57:13 +0000

That shouldn't be too difficult to add Sven, I'll have a look when I get a free moment.

SvenPhilippe

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:03:39 +0000

Added!
You know what Matt?
I think one thing is missing: a read on link to a #jump anchor (remember http://snewscms.com/forum/index.php?topic=8177)

Matt

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:45:46 +0000

That shouldn't be too difficult toolman, I will see if I can explain it later today.